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Net neutrality?
| Net Neutrality is federally dead, but many states are still holding the original laws. Meanwhile senators are pushing a law to basically federally renact the disbanded rules. There have been multiple reports of communities creating their own internet connections. Further, it is still fresh enough in people's minds that no major ISP has tried to pull any fast ones on their customers in fear of massive pushback and loss of profit.
| >a world where corporations are becoming more and more powerful, even controlling the population's access to information
>governments are increasingly corrupt, and becoming more and more of a joke, with the corporations being the ones truly pulling the strings
>while still labeled a democracy, the general citizen no longer has much of a say unless they form a group, and that is becoming harder as corporations are given more and more freedom
hmm... I think I've heard this before...
| >>127762 Thanks for the clarification
Shit.. We are one step closer to cyberpunk (the bad side of course) >>127849
| Licky me my country approved a law that guarantees net neutrality
| Lucky notnlicky
| About fifty senators are pushing a motion to enact the Congressional Review Act in order to block the FCC decision. Net Neutrality itself hasn't officially ended yet- its a long process.
| >>128146 That is a topic I am unfortunately not educated enough in to answer, but I'm certain a decent search will provide answers.
| >>128137 Hopefully we win this war. Some jerkass company in my country outright stated the company do not support net neutrality =_=
| >>128146
That is a very difficult thing to do. Planning for that starts with clearly defining what is the internet and how does it function. What hardware, servers and routers and switches. How will these connect, what mediums to use and how will these be provided. What is content and how it will be generated, where it will reside. What net protocols will be used, will these need dedicated servers or not.
Some of these are easy and some more difficult. But all needs to be planned.
| >>128599
Even if we don't, Ajit Pai won't survive- not with a third or more of the Attorney Generals of the US suing him for fraud and identity theft, among other things.
| Net neutrality was only around since 2015, they attempted to use fear mongering tactics to prevent it from being abolished
| Net neutrality in this regard was born because of attempts to look inside network packets and think of how cool it would be to leech money based on what the binary pattern inside those packets was.
One doesnt think a lot about freedom until the possibility of becoming a slave.
| >>127849
Yeah, it's Huxley's „brave new world“ which is mistaken as an utopian alternative to Orwell's „1984“ by the capitalists propaganda.
| >>129540
A Brave New World is basically the same as 1984, except unlike 1984 where fear is used to control people, in BNR it's pleasure that controls people. IRL, governments and corporations use both in equal amounts.
| >>129037
Another ignorant meme. Net Neutrality in principle has been around much longer than 2015- the whole reason it was even put into law was so the government could stop wrangling with ISP's who repeatedly throttled services and pissed on their consumers when a website got too much traffic (E.G: Comcast throttling p2p networks: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comcast_Corp._v._FCC#Background)
| Also: https://consumerist.com/2014/02/23/netflix-agrees-to-pay-comcast-to-end-slowdown/
| https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/12/team-internet-far-done-whats-next-net-neutrality-and-how-you-can-help
| What's truly important is the nut neutrality
Who's gonna call the ISP to contract the porn pack?
| At some point the internet needs to declare itself a separate entity from the governments. A country of it’s own with laws and borders..Even a military.
| >>131922
Ew, because that's just what we need... yet another country with arbitrary laws created by arbitrary rulers.
| No gods or kings. only LAN
| Amen to that, my brudda
| So is neutrality good, g/u/rls?
I see a lot of 'alt-right spokesmen' are trying to imply that repealing net neutrality is ensuring freedom of internet and that based Ajit Pai is the hero of mankind. Why would they think so?
| >>135014 no my dude they're just saying that so they can get you on their side. In actuality the reasons certain companies want to take away net neutrality is so they can charge you more for Internet
| >>135014
The net MUST be neutral. Anyone reasoning for the opposite has an interest in its side effects and a plan to profit by having already a guarantee to have higher priority than the rest. Networks by definition are pipes to transport heaps of bits from point A to point B regardless of how they are generated or why they are being transported.
| Other g/u/rls around the world are as pissed as we are.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/feb/01/punk-rock-internet-diy-rebels-working-replace-tech-giants-snoopers-charter
It says there that just what punk rock was for music, this is it also for the Internet.
Go on my coders, deepen your knowledge and know that we do not walk alone.
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| I felt like the noises kinda faded a month ago... Is neutrality dead yet or is it still pending a process or something?
I don't live in US so I could be not getting the latest heat lol